Susan Faludi

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Susan C. Faludi (born Birth date|1959|04|18) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two well-known books. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance".

Biographical information

Faludi was born in Queens, New York in 1959 and grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York. Her mother was a homemaker and journalist and is a long-time NYU student. Her father is a photographer who had emigrated from Hungary, a survivor of the Holocaust. She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for "The Harvard Crimson", and became a journalist, writing for "The New York Times", "Miami Herald", "Atlanta Journal Constitution", "San Jose Mercury News", and "The Wall Street Journal", among other publications. Throughout the eighties she wrote several articles on feminism and the apparent resistance to the movement. Seeing a pattern emerge, Faludi began to write "Backlash", which was released in late 1991. She lives with fellow author Russ Rymer.

Books

*Faludi's 1991 book "" argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women. Faludi asserted that many who argue "a woman's place is in the home, looking after the kids" are hypocrites, since they (or their wives) are exactly like the women they are criticizing. This work won her the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction in 1991. [cite book | last = Faludi| first = Susan | authorlink = Susan Faludi| title = | series = | date = October 1, 1991| publisher = Crown| isbn= 0517576988]

*In her 1999 book "" Faludi analyzes the state of the American man. Faludi argues that while many of those in power are men, most individual men have little power. American men have been brought up to be strong, support their families and work hard. But many men who followed this now find themselves underpaid or unemployed, disillusioned and abandoned by their wives. Changes in American society have affected both men and women, Faludi concludes, and it is wrong to blame individual men for class differences, or for plain differences in individual luck and ability, that they did not cause and from which men and women suffer alike. [cite book | last = Faludi| first = Susan | authorlink = Susan Faludi| title = | series = | date = October 1, 2000| publisher = Harper Perennial| isbn= 0380720450]

*In "The Terror Dream" Faludi analyzes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in light of prior American experience going back to insecurity on the historical American frontier such as in Metacom's Rebellion. Faludi argues that 9/11 reinvigorated in America a climate that is hostile to women. Women are viewed as weak and best suited to playing support roles for the men who protect them from attack. [cite book | last = Faludi| first = Susan | authorlink = Susan Faludi| title = The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America| series = | date = October 2, 2007| publisher = Metropolitan Books| isbn= 0805086927] [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/opinion/07faludi.html/ America’s Guardian Myths - New York Times ] ] The book was called a "tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned work that gives feminism a bad name" by the New York Times principal book reviewer Michiko Kakutani [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/books/23kaku.html?ref=books New York Times Book Review] , 10-23-2007] . Other reviews were positive.

See also

*Third-wave feminism
*Jewish feminism

References

External links

* [http://www.susanfaludi.com SusanFaludi.com] - official website
* [http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/faludi.htm Critical Resources: Susan Faludi] .
* [http://zpedia.org/The_Reckoning:_Safeway_LBO_Yields_Vast_Profits_but_Exacts_A_Heavy_Human_Toll Faludi's Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the Safeway LBO]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Leonard-t.html?ref=books Macho Security State] John Leonard positively reviews Faludi's "THE TERROR DREAM: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America".
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/books/23kaku.html 9/11 Is Seen as Leading to an Attack on Women] Michiko Kakutani critically reviews Faludi's "THE TERROR DREAM: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America".
* [http://www.menweb.org/farrfalu.htm Warren Farrell vs. Susan Faludi] Critical examination of the differences and similarities of Faludi's "Stiffed" and Farrell's "Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say"
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8462027550470874163&hl=en Video: Susan Faludi - The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America] (October 19, 2007), lecture from 2007 book tour.